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Direct linkWilson, Sarah Bartlett – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Basic writing, which developed as a field within the larger discipline of rhetoric and composition, has a tumultuous past and an uncertain future. What began as an academic response to a perceived literacy crisis with the rise of open admissions in the late 1960s has continued to grow and reinvent its structures, theories, and practices as new…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Educational History, Educational Trends, Textbooks
Peer reviewedMendenhall, Annie S. – College English, 2011
This essay provides an account of The Ohio State University's (OSU) rhetoric department during the tenure of Joseph Villiers Denney, arguing that he appropriated and repurposed national trends in education and rhetoric in ways that complicate the narrative of rhetoric and composition's decline in the late nineteenth century. In this essay, the…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, College Faculty, Reputation, Writing (Composition)
Crow, Peter – ADE Bulletin, 1988
In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, states that the consensus to embrace rhetoric as a unifying focus would undercut small colleges. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Trends, English Departments, English Instruction
